Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
TRUCKING A TRAVELLER.
How Two Drummers With Resources So
o Bed In a Frontier Town.
Omaha Rec

How Two Drummers With Resources Got
Bed In a Frontier Town.
Omaha Bee.
Nick Snowman always has good story
to tell. A representative Of the Bee
found him at the Millard, resting from
big lebors, and this is the tale he
unfolded:
You know Charley w? Well. Charley
and were showed in up on the Broken
Bow Line last winter. The train lust
managed 10 make little STATEN along
about dark, and we tied up there for the
night. There was a light load on, but
every mothers son and one daughter of
them piled out and made for the only
hotel in the place. OF course, Charley and
had to help the daughter along, and
when we reached the motel everything
was taken. They fixed the daughter up
offered Charley and the soft eide of q
couple Of chairs in the Office, but you
see we had been figuring on jast such s
situation, and we thought We might get
something better. We didn't swear and
try to cut up rusty, but Charley stepped
over and set his sample case on chair
near the stove, around which everybody
was standing; then we lit our cigars and
waited for supper-or developments. In
q minute little nervous fellow, who had
been spreading his coattails before the
stove, got too warm and looked for
chair. The one with Charley's sample
case in it was nearest, and he reached
out for the case to set it off in the chair.
Well, he hadn't touched it before Charley
gave yell tnat wo1ld have curdled thes
blood of Sioux he jumped over every
body between him and the case, and
snstcned it away from the little fellow in
q mia4te.
4ss"My Lord! don't touch that" he
gasped at the man, as though he had
snstched him bodily from the jaws of
death. He lovingly set the case 81 his
feet, and while everybody in the room
was gaSking at him I inquired in my
most innocently casual manner:
CLOVIS the nitro glycerine trade now,
Charley?"
"First rate" he answered, carelessly.
"You see it's no work to sell our goods.
The explosives we handle have one third
more power than those sold by any other
house, and We sell our goods at the same
figure the other houses do theirs-all I've
got to do Is show the goods ard they sell
themselves. can jut take one Of those
cartridges out somewhere and explode it
q man sees what it will do and the stuff
Is sold, il he wants anything in that line.
It's little disagreeable in this weather
have to go SO far away from every
thing to show the stuff-not much like
boots and shoes, you know"
81 don't see how on earth you dare
carry the stun around" I murmured,
glancing at the sample case between Char
iey's feet.
"Oh, we'll, fellow gets used to IT," he
replied, with the air of man who carries
his life in his hand. "Not so much dan
ger in cold weather-warmth expands 1t,
and then 1t is more liable to explode"-
he reached down here and placed his
hand on the side next the stove. "Great-
est danger is from somebody meddling
with it. Our house never had but
one accident from man on
the road. A man up in Mon
tana had his samples in caooose
that was run into by another train''-lm-
pressive silence for minute, then he
went on in mildly reminiscent way.
had to get out rocking gang to
clear up that wreck-they had to order
out the bridge gang to build culvert
over the hole it made"
Charley shook his head sadly, aud the
little man who had attempted to move
that sample case edged up to the desk. l
him.
"Come to think Of it," he whispered
nervously to the clerk, "I won't want that
room tonight. I guess I'll stsy in the
T1xyo NJ
to watch, you know"
The clerk assured him that the train
men would look after them, but he
wouldn't have it that way-nothing would
do but he must go himself 1 happened
up beside him just then and, finding he
was bound to leave, took the room in the
most innocent way in the world.
The clerk assigned me the room all
right, but he kept glaring over st Charley
and his case full of internal machines all
the while and the little man started for
the door.
He said he didn't think he could wal
for support WAS so close in there it
made him sick, and he'd have to get some
air, he ssid. The clerk tried to detain
him, but he didn't have time to tslk-he
bolted through the door and houndered
of through the drifts.
When Charley and came fram supper
we could see war sill around. The guests
were drawn up in battle array on the side
Of the Office, and the clerk headed them.
He pulled his mustsche a minute to get
mis- courage up then he aew at Charley.
"Your friend can have this room here,
but you csn't stay in this house with that
moment longer, SIR" he said.
Charley glanced down at the ansthe-
m,zed sample case.
"Whst's the matter with that7" he
asked, and, picking it up, he carried 1t 70
the desk, lifted 1t up as high IS he could,
and let it drop before the Mortified clerk
coulc interfere.
There wasn't any explosion, and when
Charley opened the case there WAS moth
ing more deadly displayed than fine line
of tea and coffee samples-but We mad cur
bed that night.
NewSuit Of Clothes.
Buy the boys aMew suit of clothes for
80 r-~s1{ ~,